 Load Balancers

This covers building a HTTP virtual server fronting a web server listening on HTTP/TCP 80. It goes over the fundamental steps to putting a server behind the Citrix ADC. All other types of load balancing leverages the topics covered in this walkthrough.

A continuation of the Basic Reverse Proxy/Load balance setup where we create an HTTPS/SSL Virtual Server

Responder Policies are commonly used for redirection. This includes the ever-popular redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, but responder policies can be leveraged to redirect traffic to different URL's as well.

This article walks through setting up an IPv4 Data Set. Responder Policies can be defined to either DROP or RESET connections to address that are in the list (or allow by negating that list).

Content Switching is the equivalent of what our ARR servers do today. We will probably leverage these the most. However, you should be familiar with the Citrix ADC before going through this document. If you are not, review the first two Articles that cover Basic Reverse Proxy and SSL Virtual Servers.

Here is how you add a server farm or a server to one of our Application Request Routing servers.

Defining which Cipher suites can be used when a client communicates with a Virtual IP on a Citrix ADC. Since VIPs are client facing, they are subject to vulnerability scans and external threats. This document covers how to select with Cipher suites are used (disabling the less secure/higher risk suites)

This article covers logging traffic processed by a Virtual Server. It also covers how to setup a syslog server for easier navigation of the logs.

The Citrix ADC's can be configured to send out logs and SNMP traps based on certain events, but rely on other monitoring tools to send out emails. Since the Citrix Application Delivery Management appliance is a log destination by the ADC's by default, we can use Citrix ADM to send out any email alerts based on criteria of our choosing. This document covers that process.